Highlights

Motherhood

Motherhood

This is a short trailer for the video “Motherhood” by Maria Korporal. The full video is 2:28 long and is shown on festivals and exhibitions. Life begins from a single point, unfolding into lines and organic forms that grow, shift, and continuously...

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Song of the Open Road

Song of the Open Road

The video above is a short trailer. The full video “Song of the Open Road” is 8:38 long and is shown in screenings and exhibitions, or upon request. Song of the Open Road is inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem of the same title. A winged figure – the artist...

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Qalvinist Qosmos. As the Deer Pants

Qalvinist Qosmos. As the Deer Pants

A winged figure—myself—walks the narrow path beneath a vast, dark sky. The ever-watchful Eye of God looms above, while surreal, hand-drawn animations emerge and evolve in the cosmic expanse.

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Qalvinist Qosmos

Qalvinist Qosmos

„Qalvinist Qosmos“ is a multimedia installation, consisting of a drawing performance with augmented reality and a 360°/virtual reality video work „As the Deer Pants“.

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Qlimate Qronobot

Qlimate Qronobot

AI and the Future of Our Planet. An installation with an augmented reality object and two video projections. With this work, I explore how AI could play a role in addressing climate change – hence the name Qlimate Qronobot.

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Questioning Qats

Questioning Qats

This is the trailer/presentation of the 360° VR movie and installation “QUESTIONING QATS – Ceci n’est pas un chat” by Maria Korporal. “Ceci n’est pas un chat” (This is not a cat) – with this contemporary parody of the...

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An Unreal Cat in a Virtual Chat

An Unreal Cat in a Virtual Chat

“Ceci n’est pas un chat” (This is not a cat) – with this contemporary parody of the well-known statement by surrealist painter René Magritte, Maria Korporal explores the identity of AI chatbots, playing with the changing meanings of the word...

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The Mind’s Egg

The Mind’s Egg

This is a short trailer for my video “The Mind’s Egg”. The full video is 2:30 long and is shown on festivals and exhibitions. Description: The metaphore of the mind’s egg refers to some of the highly estimated potentialities of the human mind...

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The Wishing Table

The Wishing Table

The video above is a short trailer. The full video “The Wishing Table” is 4:10 long and is shown in screenings and exhibitions, or upon request. The Wishing Table in the famous Grimm brothers’ fairy tale is covered with food and drink after one...

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Wandel

Wandel

WANDEL, translated CHANGE, concerns climate change, and the social and cultural changes we have to undertake to avoid a global environmental crisis.

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Pervitin Power

Pervitin Power

Pervitin was the drug for soldiers in Nazi Germany. It is known today as Crystal Meth. In the video I take on the role of the soldier. After simulating a Pervitin shot, a change of consciousness takes place. Animations move through the space like hallucinations, culmina…

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Invocation of the Stone

Invocation of the Stone

Video book project by Maria Korporal. Animated charcoal drawing and digital animation projected on a handmade book with printed text. Text cited from the poem cyclus “Beschwörung des Steines” by Erich Fried, in “Reich der Steine”, Fischer...

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Short Stories

Short Stories

“Short Stories” is an immersive 360° video. You can move your mouse or finger to walk around in the room. The short films projected on the walls are the animated charcoal drawings: – Micro Evolution – The Bride – Ovolution Click here to...

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Breathing Bags

Breathing Bags

Breathing Bags are plastic bags with rubbish found on the streets, which inflate and explode with breathing movements and sounds. One-way plastic bags are so ubiquitous in the street scene that we no longer even notice them. By watching them explode, we become aware...

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S.A.D.

S.A.D.

Inspired by the sonopoem S.A.D. of Ilaria Boffa, Maria Korporal’s video expresses the tensions between conflict and harmony of seasonal affective disorder.

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Thinking with my Knee

Thinking with my Knee

Homage to Joseph Beuys. During a walk in the streets of Beuys’ city Düsseldorf, I photographed a piece of rubbish sitting on the asphalt. Later I anthropomorphised and animated it, using charcoal drawing. It changed into a spontaneously created microcosm....

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ZoOm into my Room

ZoOm into my Room

The full version is now available as pay-per-view on www.visualcontainer.tv! In this video I try to show the human experience of loneliness and impotence during their „meetings“ in cyberspace. Even if the light image accurately depicts the person, eye contact is imp…

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The First After-Corona Kiss

The First After-Corona Kiss

The very first kiss captured on film was between two naked women. It was recorded by Eadweard Muybridge in his remarkable studies of the human figure in motion in the 1880s. I have animated several of his photographic sequences in my video works, but The Kiss remains...

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